by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Demo, Open House and Q&A on the OpenSim Architecture Islands grid: http://ow.ly/quyM # Real Architecture in Virtual Environments: How to Profit from Virtual Environments – a Second Life event: http://ow.ly/qBGQ # Free Demo, Open House and Q&A on the...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Visiting an architectural masterpiece, or touring a building we helped design, is one of the many great rewards of architectural study and practice. Yet even if we think of ‘architecture’ as a rich, experiential, and tangible phenomenon, the daily...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
I captured this brief, though very insightful, clip of Philip Rosedale addressing a ‘mixed reality’ audience streamed live from the Engage Expo in San Jose California, and in-world at the Metanomics event space. I haven’t had a chance to edit and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Realxtend continues to innovate, as reported by Jani Pirkola at maxping: “The virtual earth has been flat. Now that is about to change. Is it going to be a ball? Yes, but not as you would think! realXtend surprises us by defining a new model where the avatars...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
For all of you early adopters out there, this new report from ThinkBalm is definitely worth a read. If rich, immersive, 3D, virtual environments “The core question we set out to answer is, “How are early adopters overcoming barriers to adoption of immersive...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Following yesterday’s post about urban models generated from point clouds, I noticed this post on Digital Urban about the possibility of using Microsoft’s Photosynth as a way of capturing these point clouds (in this camporting those clouds as full 3D...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
This Second Life event should be a pretty interesting, held October 2nd at 12 PM PDT, 21:00 PM CEDT, at this slurl. It will be moderated by Roy Philbin from Second Interest, and features the following panel: Kirsten Kiser, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of arcspace.com...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was just checking in on Twitter (I’m @ARCHNetwork, btw) – and saw that I missed a tweet from NPIRL’s Bettina Tizzy posting a RT from @TishShute from UgoTrade about the exciting “Toward the Sentient City” pamphlet, published by Situated...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
My faith in ‘the convergence’ was re-affirmed by Cory Ondrejka’s recent commentary on this video in his excellent collapsing geography blog. It’s easy to forget, and often difficult to visualize, what these newly emerging (and converging)...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re curious about how the OpenSim platform might be useful in your art, architecture or design related projects, we will be holding an informal open house this Wednesday, September 23rd at 9am PDT on the Architecture Islands grid. Here is the event’s...